Fw: Re: [RR] Quiz

[Robert D Hamilton]

And, 97 years is also stretching it.  If we look at Genesis 6:18 we see that God is telling Noah what he is going to do, and mentions Noah's "sons ... and your son's wives".  This indicates that Noah's sons were married.  What was the marrying age?  Let's assume that Shem was 13 when he married (he could have been older).  Subtract 13 from the 97 years determined in Genesis 11, and we come up with 84 years.   It's amazing how many people (and how many Chrisitan web sites out there) take Genesis 6:3 and use it to support their proposition that it took 120 years to build the ark.   Gen 6:3 And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.   Robert Hamilton   ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:47:46 EDT Subject: Re: [RR] Quiz Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   Space. In a message dated 9/10/03 12:22:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All,   Let's have a Can'O'Worms Quiz.   How long did it take Noah to build the ark, providing biblical proof to back it up? Noah may have had up to 97 years to build the ark.  See verses below. Bonus ?'s   How long were Noah and his family on the ark? Noah and his family were on the ark for one year and ten days. Gen 7 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month-on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. Gen 8 13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you-the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground-so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it." How old was Noah when Shem was born? Noah was 600 when the flood waters came. Gen 7 NIV 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah Shem was 97 when the flood came. Genesis 11 10 This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father [2] of Arphaxad. Noah was 503 when Shem was born.